Santorum and Gingrich Illinois Coordinators’ Takes on Presidential Objection Withdrawals

I gave you the information passed on by Presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s Illinois Chairman here.

Al Salvi

Dan Rutherford

Now, here’s what Santorum’s Illinois Coordinator Jon Zahm says,

“Leadership from the

  • Romney campaign (Dan Rutherford),
  • Gingrich campaign (Bruce Hansen and Nick Provenzano),
  • Paul campaign (Chris Younce) and
  • Santorum campaign (Al Salvi and Jon Zahm)

have agreed today to withdraw all petition challenges in Illinois against one another’s statewide and delegate petitions.

“This is a victory for unity and for allowing these volunteer driven grassroots campaigns to go forward and voters to have more choices.

“Kudos to all involved.”

Previously, Newt Gingrich’s State Coordinator Nick Provenzano left this comment:

Nick Provenzano

“The only reason why Newt’s petition signatures for Delegates and Alternate Delegates were not challenged was because they were properly filed with double the required signatures.”In almost every district we filed with 1,200 signatures only needing 600.

“The Newt petition challenge that Jon Zahm filed against us can’t be for lack of signatures.

“For Newt’s petition we collected 6,200 signatures, the minimum was 3,000 but the state would only let us file 5,000.

“So we picked the best of the best 5,000 signatures.

“We also used Newt’s home address on his statement of Candidacy which might be the basis of contention against the other Candidates.

“Nick Provenzano, State Political Director, http://www.IllinoisWithNewt.org


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